The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The recent death at Lynn, Mass, Of Gustavus
Andrews, aged n, recalls a famous New
/ England tragedy He OBLIGATED as Deputy
| Sheriff at the hanging of Prof Webster, OF
| Harvard, for the murder Of DR.. Parkman.
KING UMBERTo, of italy, in chatting over the
| decoration scandal at Paris, said with smile;
There are two things my father never refused
| even to a mendicant in the street-a cigar from
his case and the cross of the Crown OF Italy.
THAT was certainly an appreciative Missis-
sppi editor who, when invited out to dinner,
wrote of the repast as follows: THE rolls were
| a perfect passionate poem, the fried ham a
| dream Of delight, and the baked goose glimpse
| of paradise"
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK, the banker and lover OF
ants, is called ''St Lubbock" by Londoners be-
! cause he was the father of the bill making four
| days of the year legal holidays in ENGLAND
| His lectures on savings which he is now deliver
| ing in South London attract large audiences
A FELLOW named Ketchum, who was confined
in the Kings County IN. " Penitentiary for
| stealing, made his escape in peculiar way. AS
he had lame hand he was given light work TO
do He was engaged in embarrassing tuesday
morning and secreted himself in swirl barrel
in which he was trundled out OF the yard and TO
liberty.
PRESIDENT BARNARD has abolished the work
ing system at Columbia College. Hereafter
only three students in each class-the three
who do the best work-will receive honors or in
any way b lifted above their fellows. This
move is much more sensible than the return to
the mortar board cap and academic gown which
the trustees have just recommended.
A FRENCH paper has just made calculation
of the number of times which the opera Don
Giovanni has been played in Europe since its
first production on Oct. % 1877, and 1t finds that
1t has appeared $40 timeS-namely, 532 at
Prague, 400 at Berlin, Az at Vienna, 400 at
Frankfort, $50 at London, 800 at Hamburg, 272
at Stockholm, 2G6 at Paris and 232 at Copen
nagen These figures. however, leave Russia,
Spain, Italy and Switzerland out entirely
For the past twelve months the make of but
ter in Iowa, besides what is consumed on the
farms amounted to sc. 900 900 pounds 1t would
have aggregated more than 900O0,OO0 but for
the drought. Iowa produces more butter than
any other State in the Union. There are 1,2i3-
000cows in Iowa-more than in any other State
excepting New York The reason why New
York doeSn produce more butter than Iowa
does is because she makes twenty times as much
cheese.
AN English builder of theatres has invented a
panic lock for theatre doors. 1t is contained in
panel which occupies large surface on the
inside Of the door, and any one coming in con-
tact with the door must press the panel upon
which the door opens instantly. 1t is nlpossi-
BILE for TIE doors of q building fitted with this
lock to be fastened so that eCress is prevented,
but from the outside no entrance is possible ex-
London has been fitted throughout with the new
lock.
''AT a table d'hote the other day." writes the
Boulogne correspondent of an English news
paper Il received forcibe reminder that those
who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
Among the items of the menu was roasted
thrushes, and took occasion to remark to my
neighbor on the inhumanity of killing and eat
ing these feathered songsters The reply / re-
ceived may be taken as expressing in a nutshell
the opinion one hears everywhere in France
with regard to our treatment of the sister isle.
mo, was the sententious but unanswerable
rejoiner, you like better to kill the Irish"
THE London correspondent of the New York
Times telegraphs: Reflections reach us here of
savage feuds among the Irish in America over
the question of Mr. Blaine's running next year.
From what learn there is big intrigue on to
repeat the Irish diversion in his favor and to use
the machinery of the national league for the
purpose, but it meets with strenuous resistance
the part of the better sort, and does not seem
to possess anywhere near the strength it had in
1874. Still the irish leaders here are nervous
lest 1t produce schism in the Irish-American
ranks which might affect the Irish cause at
home,